On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > 121127 Randy Westlund wrote: >> I'm a new gentoo user coming from Ubuntu. > > Welcome ! > >> I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with Gentoo >> on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it: >> svn repos, AVR cross compiler, multiple screens, etc. I much prefer >> Gentoo to Ubuntu and would like to put it on my primary laptop, >> but I think I should leave an Ubuntu installation on there just in case. >> I'd like to have Gentoo, Ubuntu and Win7 alongside each other. >> How feasible would it be to have Gentoo and Ubuntu share a /home partition? > > It's likely to cause problems after a short time, > as the 2 OS's will vary in the way they handle config files > & pkgs wb updated at different times & to different versions. > > Try having separate homes, but symlink most of your subdirs in Ubuntu > -- since you are likely to stop using it soon -- to those in Gentoo. > The subdirs to symlink wb those which contain your personal stuff > -- documents, pictures, whatever -- , which won't vary with OS. > > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca > >
Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm going to have separate /home directories and symlink the important things. Given that I don't intend to use ubuntu very much, it makes the most sense. But at some point, I want to try this on a spare machine, just to see what happens. Perhaps if I run xfce on gentoo and kde on ubuntu, there would be fewer collisions.
